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1 @c -*-texinfo-*-
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2 @c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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3 @c Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 @c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions.
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5 @node Antinews, Index, Standard Hooks, Top
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6 @appendix Emacs 19 Antinews
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8 For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about
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9 downgrading to Emacs version 19.34. We hope you will enjoy the greater
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10 simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 20 features. In
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11 the following section, we carry this information back as far as Emacs
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12 19.29, for which the previous printed edition of this manual was made.
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14 @section Old Lisp Features in Emacs 19
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16 Here are the most important of the features that you will learn
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17 to do without in Emacs 19:
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19 @itemize @bullet
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20 @item
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21 In a great simplification, Emacs 19 supports ASCII characters only.
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22 There are no multibyte characters, character sets, language
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23 environments, coding systems, or input methods; all the functions that
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24 specifically relate to them are gone as well.
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26 Valid character codes for text must be in the range 0 through 255.
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27 Within this range, there are no invalid character codes.
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29 @item
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30 The Custom facility has been replaced with a much simpler and more
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31 general method of defining user option variables. Instead of
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32 @code{defcustom}, which requires you to specify each user option's data
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33 type and classify options into groups, all you have to do is write a
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34 @code{defvar}. You should still start the documentation string with
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35 @samp{*}, though.
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36 @end itemize
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38 Here are changes in the Lisp language itself:
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40 @itemize @bullet
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41 @item
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42 Symbols whose names start with @samp{:} are no longer special
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43 in any way. They start out void, like most other symbols.
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46 The macros @code{when} and @code{unless} have been deleted.
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48 @item
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49 The functions @code{caar}, @code{cadr}, @code{cdar} and @code{cddr}
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50 no longer exist.
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52 @item
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53 The function @code{functionp} is now gone. If you don't know
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54 by now whether something is a function, Emacs can't tell you.
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55 @end itemize
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57 Here are changes in handling strings and text.
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61 The function @code{substring} works only on strings, not on vectors.
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64 There are no more character categories.
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67 When you compare strings with @code{equal}, it now compares
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68 their string properties as well as their text. All must match,
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69 or the strings are not equal.
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72 @code{format-time-string} no longer supports specified field width
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73 or specified padding.
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76 The functions @code{split-string} and @code{string} no longer exist.
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77 Neither does @code{store-substring} or @code{sref}.
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80 All printing characters have the same width. Therefore, we have deleted
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81 @code{char-width}, @code{string-width} and
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82 @code{truncate-string-to-width}.
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84 @item
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85 We have eliminated the functions @code{next-char-property-change} and
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86 @code{previous-char-property-change} also.
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88 @item
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89 Syntax parsing now determines the syntax of each character from the
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90 syntax table alone---not from text properties. This makes the syntax
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91 codes @samp{|} and @samp{!}, which were meant for use with text
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92 properties, useless; so we have deleted them.
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94 @item
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95 In the function @code{parse-partial-sexp}, passing @code{syntax-table}
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96 as the sixth argument @var{commentstop} no longer has any special meaning.
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97 And the return value has only eight elements.
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98 @end itemize
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100 Here are changes in other areas of Emacs Lisp:
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104 The macros @code{save-current-buffer}, @code{with-current-buffer},
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105 @code{with-temp-buffer}, @code{with-temp-file}, @code{save-selected-window},
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106 and @code{with-output-to-string} are gone.
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109 The easy-mmode facility for defining minor modes is gone too.
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112 Process filters and sentinels must explicitly save the match data, with
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113 @code{save-match-data}, or they will clobber the match data and
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114 something horrible will happen.
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116 @item
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117 As part of our effort to loosen up, @code{batch-byte-compile-file} no
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118 longer returns a nonzero status code if there is a compilation error.
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121 The ``mail user agent'' feature is gone.
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124 We have removed the functions @code{add-to-invisibility-spec} and
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125 @code{remove-from-invisibility-spec}, so you should manipulate
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126 the value of @code{buffer-invisibility-spec} by hand.
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129 The functions @code{face-documentation}, @code{face-bold-p},
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130 @code{face-italic-p}, @code{set-face-bold-p}, @code{set-face-italic-p}
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131 are gone. Instead, use @code{make-face-bold} and friends.
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134 All the functions that operate on a file now discard an extra redundant
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135 directory name from the beginning of the file name---just like
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136 @code{substitute-in-file-name}.
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139 We have got rid of the function @code{access-file}.
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142 Most of the minibuffer input functions no longer take a default value as
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143 an argument. Also, they do not discard text properties from the result.
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144 This means that if you insert text with text properties into the minibuffer,
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145 the minibuffer value really will contain text properties.
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148 Only the simple menu item format is supported (@pxref{Simple Menu Items}).
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151 You can still bind @code{x-resource-class} around a call to
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191 The function @code{convert-standard-filename} no longer exists, so each
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192 Lisp package must independently figure out which file names to use for
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202 The functions @code{keymap-parent} and @code{set-keymap-parent} are
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218 We got rid of @code{insert-file-contents-literally}, because
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219 programmers are too literal-minded anyway.
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223 threw out the function @code{error-message-string}. Don't worry so much
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224 about errors! We all make mistakes.
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